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Weird but wonderful

Belgians for sale

A group of Belgian football fans have agreed to support Holland in Euro 2012
after being bought on eBay. An anonymous Dutch buyer paid €3,000 (£2,400) —
which will be donated to Unicef — in response to this advertisement: “For
sale: Belgian soccer fans. Once again we Belgians have no team to root for.
Since tournaments are much more fun when you have a favourite team, we
decided to put our fandom for sale.”

The extra support has not helped the Dutch, who lost their first two games.
“Once the team is eliminated,” the group explained, “we will grieve for 24
hours and then put ourselves up for sale again.”

From geek to freak

A “goody two-shoes” student has dropped out of university to join a freak
show. Danielle Martin, 24, was studying art and design when she abandoned
her course to join the Circus of Horrors. “My family